Lathrop Middle School

Lathrop Middle School operates as a modestly sized 6-8 campus in Lathrop, Missouri, overseen by LATHROP R-II. Current enrollment sits at 196 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 57% smaller than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

Lathrop Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by LATHROP R-II, a district that works with 871 students overall.

Demographically, Lathrop Middle School records that nearly all students (94%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Clinton County as a whole.

On the resource side, Lathrop Middle School shows 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 37% of students at Lathrop Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lathrop Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 66.9%, a residual of +16.3 points.

Around the school, Clinton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,627 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clinton County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,692 students), of which Lathrop Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lathrop Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lathrop Middle School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lathrop Middle School has decreased 14%, going from 227 students in 2018 to 196 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.